Cigna Property & Casualty v. Liberty Mutual Insurance

*199Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Lottie E. Wilkins, J.), entered September 22, 2003, which granted the petition to vacate an arbitration award and denied respondent’s cross motion to confirm the award, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

Vacatur of an arbitration award is strictly limited to the reasons stated in CPLR 7511 (b), but where the parties have submitted to compulsory arbitration, the award must have evidentiary support and cannot be arbitrary or capricious if it is to be upheld (Mount St. Mary’s Hosp. of Niagara Falls v Catherwood, 26 NY2d 493 [1970]). Nothing in this record…